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The first Alumni Association of the Columbian College was 
formed July 14, 1847, at a meeting of twenty-seven graduates of 
the College. Only those who had received the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts could become active members of this Association. Annual 
meetings were held until 1874, when, through lessening interest, 
the organization became practically dead. 

In 1886 an attempt was made to revive the Association, and a 
meeting was held at which a constitution was adopted and officers 
elected. Afterwards it was thought best to enlarge the scope and 
membership, and a meeting of graduates of all departments of the 
University was called. At this meeting, held February 28, 1887, 
the present Association was organized, and the increasing interest 
shown by the Alumni gives large promise for the future. There are 
now three hundred and sixty enrolled members. 

It is intended to publish annually a volume of proceedings, which 
shall contain the minutes of the meetings of the Alumni, an account 
of the annual dinner, full reports of addresses by Alumni delivered 
before the University, lists of honors won by Alumni, and such 
other items as will be of interest and value. The Alumni are asked 
to co-operate in the obtaining of the material for these records. 

The Presidents of the Alumni have been — 

Mr. Wm. F. Mattingly - - - 1887 

Mr. Wm. F. Mattingly - - - 188 7-' 8 

Prof. Otis T. Mason - 1888-9 

Dr. D. W. Prentiss - - - 1880 



CONSTITUTION. 



Article I. 

This Society shall be called The Alumni Association of the 
Columbian University, D. C. 

Article II. 

The objects of this Association shall be to unite the graduates 
in closer sympathy and to promote the general welfare of the 
University. 

Article III. 

Section i. All the graduates in any of the schools of the Colum- 
bian University, and all who have received from the University any 
honorary degree, shall be eligible to membership in this Associa- 
tion. 

Sec. 2. Members shall be elected by the Executive Committee. 

Sec. 3. Members of the different Faculties, who are not gradu- 
ates of the University, shall be considered honorary members of 
this Association. 

Article IV. 

Section i. The officers of this Association shall be a President, 
two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall per- 
form the duties commonly assigned to such officers. 

Sec. 2. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds upon order of 
the Executive Committee, and shall make a report at the annual 
meeting. 

Sec. 3. The Executive Committee shall consist of the officers of 
the Association and two members from each of the schools, to be 
appointed by the President ; of which Committee five shall con- 
stitute a quorum. This Committee shall have power to call extra- 
ordinary meetings and to transact any necessary business in the 
interval between the annual meetings of the Association. 

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Article V. 

The officers shall be elected by ballot at each annual meeting of 
the Association, and the votes of a majority of the members present 
at any such meeting shall constitute a choice. 

Article VI. 

The annual meetings of the Association shall be held at the 
University Building on the Monday night immediately preceding 
the Annual Commencement of the College ; and the extraordinary 
meetings at the same place, at such times as the Executive Commit- 
tee may appoint. 

Article VII. 

The attendance of fifteen members shall be necessary at any 
meeting for the transaction of business. 

Article VIII. 

The annual dues are fixed at one dollar, and no member shall be 
entitled to vote who is in arrears. 

Article IX. 

Amendments to this Constitution may be proposed by any two 
members and voted on at the annual meeting, a two-thirds vote 
being required for adoption. Notice of such proposed amendment 
shall accompany the notice of the annual meeting. 

By a resolution adopted June 6, 1887, the initiation fee was fixed 
at one dollar. 



OFFICERS 



PRESIDENT. 
D. W. Prentiss, M. D. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
W. A. De Caindry. 

SECRETARY. 

H. L. HODGKINS. 



A. B. Duvall. 



TREASURER. 
A. P. Montague. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Otis T. Mason, Chairman. 
W. A. De Caindry. John B. Larner. 

A. B. Duvall. Wm. Lee, M. D. 

C W. Franzoni, M. D. A. P. Montague. 

E. B. Hay. D. W. Prentiss, M. D. 

H. L. Hodgkins. A. F. Steele. 



MEMBERS 



Prof. Cleveland Abbe. 

Dr. Geo. N. Acker. 

J. H. Adriaans. 

Alden H. Alvord. 

E. Willoughby Anderson. 



Edmund A. Bailey. 
Dr. Chas. A. Ball. 
H. S. Barbour. 
Charles H. Bates. 
James W. Bayard. 
Fillmore Beall. 
Dr. Frank D. Bean. 
Dr. Tarleton H. Bean. 
Dr. Louis K. Beatty. 
W. Pierce Bell. 
Walter V. R. Berry. 



Dr. Eugene Bettes. 
Dr. Herman H. Birney. 
Dr. M. V. B. Bogan. 
Dr. Samuel W. Bogan. 
Dr. James H. Bonebroke. 
Dr. John W. Bovee. 
Dr. Charles H. Bowen. 
Frank C. Bowen. 
H. W. Brelsford. 
Alex. T. Britton. 
Chapin Brown. 
Robert B. Brown. 
Rev. T. Edwin Brown. 
Aldis B. Browne. 
Dr. M. Bruckheimer. 
Dr. J. H. Bryan. 
N. L. Burchell. 
Wm. R. Bushby. 



MEMBERS— Continued. 



Dr. Chas. T. Caldwell. 
Thomas H. Callan. 
Henry Calver. 
Francis E. Camp. 
Rev. Norman W. Camp. 
Z. T. Carpenter. 
Campbell Carrington. 
Dr. J. J. Carroll. 
Dr. John W. Chappell. 
Hon. Joseph Christian. 
A. S. Christie. 
Fred. F. Church. 
Samuel R. Church. 
Dr. W. W. L. Cissel. 
Charles R. Cleaves. 
Dr. Fred. H. Cleaves. 
Walter C. Clephane. 
Charles L. Cocke. 
Myer Cohen. 
John R. Collette. 
Dr. John F. Collins. 
Lendell A. Conner, Jr. 
Miss Louise Connolly. 
Dr. J. S. Conrad. 
Rev. Richard B. Cook. 
Dr. B. C. Cooke. 
J. Walter Cooksey. 
J. Weed Corey. 
George E. Corson. 
Dr. Elliott Coues. 
J. D. Coughlan. 
Hon. Walter S. Cox. 
Charles H. Cragin. 
Dr. C. P. Cronk. 
Clarence E. Curtis. 
Dr. Geo. W. N". Custis. 
Dr. J. B. G. Custis. 

J. J. Darlington. 
Prof. Harry C. Davis. 
Prof. Henry E. Davis. 
Wm. A. De Caindry. 
Dr. Alfred De Carre. 
W. Riley Deeble. 
Edward L. Dent. 



J. B. Diver. 
Dr. H. A. Dobson. 
Philip T. Dodge. 
Dr. R. B. Donaldson. 
Dr. Williams Donnally. 
W. H. Doolittle. 
C. W. Dorsey. 
Dr. A. S. Douglas. 
Dr. Geo. A. Drury. 
Dr. John W. Dunn. 
Andrew B. Duvall. 

Dr. Robert T. Edes. 

John Joy Edson. 

Rev. J. Hartwell Edwards. 

John N. Ehle. 

Dr. R. M. Ellyson. 

Dr. Amelia Erbach. 

Benj. L. Fairchild. 

Chas. E. Fairman. 

Jos. G. Falck. 

Dr. Robert Farnham. 

Prof. Francis R. Fava, Jr. 

Dr. G. P. Fenwick. 

H. J. Finley. 

Dr. M. F. Finley. 

Geo. E. Fle'niing. 

Dr. Robert Fletcher. 

Weston Flint. 

Dr. Geo. L. Fox. 

Robert C. Fox. 

Dr. William H. Fox. 

Prof. Fabian Franklin. 

Dr. C. W. Franzoni. 

Dr. William B. French. 

Dr. L. L. Friedrich. 

Prof. E. T. Fristoe. 

President E. M. Gallaudet. 
C. H. Gardner. 
Henry Wise Garnett. 
Leon D. Geneste. 
Dr. Theodore N. Gill. 
Dr. J. K. P. Gleeson. 



MEMBERS— Continued. 



Dr. James D. Glennan. 
Dr. W. W. Godding. 
Dr. Eugene Goodwin. 
J. Holdsworth Gordon. 
William A. Gordon. 
Prof. J. Howard Gore. 
Dr. Henry L. Gosling. 
George R. Gott. 
Rev. Julius E. Grammar. 
Dr. Leonard K. Graves. 
Dr. William M. Gray. 
Wm. Bartlett Greene. 
Dr. Francis M. Gunnell. 
Dr. Revere R. Gurley. 

Wm. D. Hadger. 
Dr. Arthur J. Hall. 
Pennington Halsted. 
Harris C. Hamlin. 
Dr. Wm. E. Handy. 
Dr. W. S. Harban. 
E. G. Harbaugh. 
Dr. Gena Russell Harding. 
Robt. H. Harkness. 
Hon. John M. Harlan. 
Dr. H. S. T. Harris. 
Dr. G. B. Harrison. 
Fred. L. Harvey. 
Rev. F. H. Havenner. 
Edwin B. Hay. 
Dr. Walter Hay. 
Robert H. Hazard. 
William A. Hedrick. 
W. G. Henderson. 
Thos. B. Higgins. 
Dr. Clara Bliss Hinds. 
Prof. H. L. Hodgkins. 
Dr. A. F. Hofer. 
Alexander H. Holt. 
Wm. F. Holtzman. 
Marcus S. Hopkins. 
W. B. Howell. 
Hubert Howson. 
Edmund Hudson. 
Dr. L. C. F. Hugo. 
Rev. A. J. Huntington. 
Dr. R. C. Hyatt. 

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Eugene B. Jackson. 
Dr. A. E. Johnson. 
Wm. G. Johnson. 
Dr. Geo. W. Johnston. 
Dr. W. W. Johnston. 
William H. Jones. 

Arthur L. Keene. 
B. F. Keller. 
Abner B. Kelly. 
Harry C. Kennedy. 
Wm. T. Kent. 
Geo. W. Kern. 
Dr. A. F. A. King. 
Prof. Harry King. 
Prof. Theo Ingalls King. 
Wm. B. King. 
Joshua P. Klingle. 
Prof. F. H. Knowlton. 

G. H. La Fetra. 
T. A. Lambert. 
John B. Larner. 
Philip F. Larner. 
J. E. Latimer. 
Dr. Geo. Latimer. 
Lawrence N. Lee. 
Dr. Wm. Lee. 
Dr. D. Olin Leech. 
Rev. Geo. V. Leech. 
R. H. T. Leipold. 
E. P. Lewis. 
Dr. J. Hall Lewis. 
Dr. N. S. Lincoln. 
W. Edgar Linn. 
Irwin B. Linton. 
Prof. L. D. Lodge. 
Dr. F. B. Loring. 

A. W. Louis. 

B. G. Lovejoy. 

Rev. Edson A. Lowe. 
Woodbury Lowery. 

Dr. Thos. E. McArdle. 
Andrew McCallum. 
Frank O. McCleary. 
Dr. James C. McGuire. 



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ME MBEES— Continued. 



Edwin A. Mclntire. 
Dr. J. S. McLain. 
N. H. Martin. 
Dr. Geo. Marx. 
Prof. Otis T. Mason. 
W. B. Matthews. 
W. F. Mattingly. 
Hon. Wm. A. Maury. 
Manton Maverick. 
Dr. Clifton Mayfield. 
Dr. S. R. Means. 
W. P. Metcalf. 
Rev. O. M. Miller. 
Judge T. F. Miller. 
Dr. W. L. Miller. 
Dr. Thos. B. Mohun. 
Wm. Ward Mohun. 
Prof. A. P. Montague. 
J. F. Moore. 
John W. Morris. 
Robert E. Morris. 
Dr. R. Munson. 
Rofet. J. Murray. 

L. W. Naylor. 
Charles Newell. 
J. C. Nichols. 
Dr. H. B. Noble. 
Masaichi Noma. 
W. B. Norris. 
Dr. H. D. Nourse. 
Theo. W. Noyes. 

W. M Offley. 
R. W. F. Ogilvie. 

Richard E. Pairo. 
M. M. Parker. 
F. R. Parks. 
Wm. S. Parks. 
Dr. A. C. Patterson. 
Wm. H. Pearce. 
F. A. Pease. 
Dr. M. D. Peck. 
C. D. Penncbaker. 
Dr. Armistead Peter 



Rev. P. P. Phillips. 
James H. Pierce. 
Rev. John Pollard. 
Dr. B. G. Pool. 
Dr. Chas. E. Postley. 
Geo. W. Pratt. 
Dr. D. W. Prentiss. 
Prof. R. W. Prentiss. 
H. L. Prince. 
D. Gray Purman. 

Green B. Raum, Jr. 

John Raum. 

Dr. R. Ravenburg. 

James K. Redington. 

H. L. Reynolds, Jr. 

Chas. N. Richards. 

Dr. Chas. W. Richardson. 

Judge Wm. A. Richardson. 

S. W. Rittenhouse. 

T. A. Robbins. 

Dr. A. L. Robinson. 

N. E. Robinson. 

Wm. B. Robison. 

Dr. Edward Roome. 

Dr. E. R. Rust. 

Rev. Robert Ryland. 

Dr. J. P. Saffold. 
Dr. Geo. C. Samson. 
Rev. Thos. S. Samson. 
L. M. Saunders. 
Dr. E. M. Schaeffer. 
Ernest L. Schmidt. 
Dr. H. M. Schooley. 
Dr. W. H. Seaman. 
F. Howard Seely. 
Dr. E. A. Sellhausen. 
P. H. Seymour. 
Rev. Thos. B. Shepherd. 
J. P. Shepperd. 
Raleigh Sherman. 
Dr. D. K. Shute. 
Rev. S. M. Shute. 
George Simmons. 
Junius Simons 



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MEMBERS— Continued. 



William Small. 
Geo. M. Smith. 
Richard Smith. 
Dr. Theobald Smith. 
W. Herbert Smith. 
Dr. J. Curtiss Smithe. 
Wm. Tayloe Snyder. 
James H. Spalding. 
Albert Speiden. 
L. Patterson Sprigg. 
Dr. Wm. M. Sprigg. 
Rev. A. F. Steele. 
Edw. J. Stellwagen. 
Frank H. Stephens. 
Alex. S. Steuart. 
H. C. Stewart, Jr. 
A. T. Stuart. 
W. C. Stuart. 
Chas. L. Sturtevant. 
M. F. F. Swartzell. 

R. B. Taylor. 

Dr. W. H. Taylor. 

J. D. Terrill. 

Duncan Thompson. 

Dr. Henry C. Thompson. 

Dr. J. Ford Thompson. 

Dr. Millard F. Thompson. 

O. T. Thompson. 

Rev. Jonathan Tilson. 

Lemuel Towers, Jr. 

Alvan T. Tracy. 

David B. Tread way. 

Matthew Trimble. 



S. D. Trimble. 
Dr. J. B. Trudgian. 
John Tweedale. 
Edward R. Tyler. 
J. S. Ward Thoron. 

Dr. Jos. R. Walton. 

B. H. Warner. 

Hon. Wm. B. Webb. 

Geo. W. Weber. 

President J. C. Welling. 

G. C. Wells. 

Benj. White. 

Rev. S. R. White. 

Prof. A. G. Wilkinson. 

Geo. L. Wilkinson. 

H. K. Willard. 

E. R. Williams. 

Rev. J. W. M. Williams. 

Jesse H. Wilson. 

Dr. Lewes D. Wilson. 

Hon. William L. Wilson. 

Prof. W. C. Winlock. 

Dr. W. D. Wirt. 

B. F. Worrell. 

A. S. Worthington. 

Rev. H. H. Wyer. 

Lewis B. Wynne. 

Dr. John H. Yarnall. 
Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 
Prof. W. S. Yeates. 
Rev. D. I. Yerkes. 



THE MANHOOD OF THE INDIVIDUAL, THE TYPE AND 
INDEX OF CIVILIZATION. 



BY 



ANDREW E. DUVALL, A. M., LL. B. 



AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLUMBIAN COLLEGE 
AND THE CORCORAN SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, JUNE 12, 1889. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Faculty : 

At your call I stand in this presence to-night to acknowledge 
fealty and render that obedience which is the best token of affection. 
The swift sweep of the passing years, while it removes us further 
from the immediate surroundings of college days, cannot obliterate 
the pleasant memories of those golden hours when hope and expecta- 
tion painted the future in roseate colors, when we sighed for the time 
of action and fruition ; and, " after many days " to be thus remem- 
bered cannot fail to awaken gratitude. The call, therefore, must be 
heeded, however inadequate we may feel to the task. 

Ladies and Gentlemen : 

I propose to submit for your consideration some suggestions on 
"The Manhood of the Individual, the Type and Index of Civiliza- 
tion." 

We should ever be grateful that, in the order of Nature and the 
kind provision of Providence, it is ordained that the human race 
shall not die off in generations, but that the connecting links of 
previous generations remain to transmit the example and the bounty 
of the fathers. If each generation closed en masse its career, its in- 
fluence, and its history, of necessity the lessons of wisdom learned in 
the hard school of adversity would again have to be re-taught by like 
processes to each generation; and they would be no sooner learned 
than the tolling of its mortuary bell would bring an end to*all prog- 
ress that had been made. In its sealed tomb would lie buried all 
its achievements, its wisdom, its progress, and its fair hope. As it 

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is, however, the helping hand of each last generation stretches over 
in loving aid to its fellow, bridging dismal chasms of difficulty with 
tender affection and depositing in its lap the largess of its bounty 
and the hoarded riches of its blood-bought possessions, as well as 
the accumulated energy of its progress. This makes the environ- 
ment we call civilization. 

While the echoes of our latest and greatest Centennial celebration 
are still resounding in our ears we should not forget that it is a 
purely arbitrary treatment of the past to divide it into centuries. 
The book of history is not made up of such independent chapters. 
It does not resolve itself into such convenient sections ; with the 
dying hours of each hundred years Time's record is not closed ; 
with the opening hours of its successor no new era dawns under 
changed aspect and environment, separable from its predecessor by 
some magic of nomenclature, capable of a destiny uninfluenced by 
its recent companion, to be projected into the future untinged with 
its colors, not freighted with its woes, nor buoyed with its hopes. 

It is a deceptive and illusive process to marshal the centuries and 
in moving panorama to label your divisions and paint on the canvas 
of each its supposed distinguishing features; whereas the blending 
colors lap and intermingle with indescribable confusion, altogether 
regardless of man's centuries and his convenient stopping or resting- 
places. 

And so with the alleged "Eras of History; " is it the Age of 
Gold, of Bronze, or of Iron that shall in several larger sections rep- 
resent the whole? Shall you thus remove the sparkling gems in 
History's coronet and reset them to your fancy's choosing? And 
this without violence to the setting which time and opportunity 
and toil, and even disaster and defeat, have given them? 

Under whatever sky, in whatever land or clime, at whatever 
period, there is one factor which is necessarily present. The basis of 
all history, underlying all society, the necessary element in all civili- 
zation, is the struggling individual man, seeking self-preservation, 
personal aggrandizement, scheming and toiling to better the condi- 
tion of himself and his family. Whether imperial Caesar rules with 
iron rod, or haughty baron dominates with feudal splendor, or re- 
publican president administers with gentle sway ; whether War 
breathes his hot furnace blasts, or Peace spreads her downy wings ; 
whether fields are white with harvests or with camps, there stands, 
toils, hopes, fears, lives, and dies the individual man — of all he is 
part ; for or against him transpire all these things. 



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It was a striking irony of fate that a manumitted Roman slave, 
whose genius illumined her literature, should have exclaimed to his 
applauding masters : "Homo sum, et Juunani a mc nil alicnum puto. ' ' 
Noble sentiment ! The brotherhood of man had its authoritative 
seal impressed by the Man of Nazareth; but surely its celestial spirit 
was voiced by that Freedman in the theater of the Eternal City ! 

The first man and the last man — the federal head and the imagined 
last survivor of the race — have been the objects of speculation, curious 
research, and prophecy. Every intermediate man is worthy of like 
interest. It is the changing fortune, the advancing or receding 
wave of his progress, which itself registers history. True history 
concerns itself with the story of the people ; that continuous — it may 
be monotonous — thread of individual life, whose links bind the man 
of to-day with his less highly favored ancestor. This aspect robs 
history of none of its philosophy or romance. This individual man 
is the epitome of society and civilization. In him on a lesser scale 
are conspiring all the forces and clashing all the interests and con- 
tending all the hostile elements which, on a more magnificent and 
conspicuous theater, attract the universal attention, and by common 
consent are denominated history, supply the material for its eras 
and its centuries. As in the tiny acorn sleeps the giant oak in all 
its possibilities, so certainly in this individual man lies the race in 
miniature and history in embryo ! 

Warring elements and conflicting spirits alike in the material 
world, civilization, and man work out by inexorable laws the 
highest attainable good ; antagonistic processes and forces, which 
on casual view seem destructive, are contributing to that final result, 
and in interchangeable influences produce that equipoise which 
itself is the highest condition in each ! 

When we look at the material world what do we see? Each 
splendid planet in the stupendous system makes its wonderful march 
held in place by the operation of two unseen and mighty forces — 
the one incessantly drawing it toward and the other ceaselessly 
hurling it from a common center; each atom in the visible universe 
is subject to these same diverse powers, and yet such an equilibrium 
is maintained that there is no " crash of matter or wreck of worlds." 

In this happy combination deprive either of its companion an- 
tagonism and chaos comes ! 

Or, look at the history of civilization. Wherever kingdoms have 
toppled to their fall and nations have been plunged from the pin- 



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nacle of power, it is easy to trace the cause to the loss of internal 
equipoise. 

Take these mighty forces, the mercantile and the patriotic spirit, 
for instance! The one conservative, timid, and selfish; the other 
rash, bold, and sacrificing. Commerce must have peace to success- 
fully carry out its projects, and as it extends its enterprises the good 
will of foreign debtors (in whose marts its wares are sold) becomes 
necessary for its very life ; the spirit of gain and of conciliation 
represses the patriotic impulse that gladly chooses death to dishonor 
and scorns gold at the price of national pride. A nation of mere 
shop-keepers will accept peace even with dishonor. " Millions for 
defense, not a penny for tribute," is not their shibboleth ! When 
the fear of loss of capital in devestated cities or commerce swept 
from the seas paralyzes the patriotic spirit, the end is nigh. 

When this merchandising spirit unduly prevails, talents which 
might enrich the race in science, discovery, and the higher walks 
are prostituted to the mean end of money-getting. 

The time even came in the history of patriotic Rome (whose con- 
quering eagles had subjugated the world and whose valorous deeds 
are yet the world's wonders) when the Empire was actually sold by 
the pretorian guard to Didius, the highest bidder. 

Juvenal had previously sung in bitter strains : 

" O, Gold! Though Rome beholds no altars flame, 
No temples rise to thy pernicious name, 
Such as to Victory, Virtue, Faith are reared, 
And Concord, where the clamorous stork is heard, 
Yet is thy full divinity confest, 
Thy shrine established here in every breast!" 

In later times when Dutch commerce ruled the seas and the world 
paid tribute to Amsterdam, where the merchandising spirit had 
complete sway, the Hollander (whose patriotic spirit is proverbial) 
was ready to sacrifice even it upon the altar of commerce. 

When Antwerp was besieged by the combined forces of Holland 
and France the stadtholder discovered that the beleaguered city was 
receiving arms and ammunition from Amsterdam merchants, who, 
when tried by the magistrates, were acquitted on the ground that 
Amsterdam merchants had the right to trade wherever they pleased, 
and in this instance they had done their duty to their employers ! 
The merchants added that if anything was to be gained by trading 
to hell they would risk burning their sails ! 



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On the other hand, we might easily show that in a nation of 
soldiers where the military spirit is regnant life, peace and material 
prosperity are constantly menaced, the home is destroyed, and ruin 
is inevitable. 

Now turn your glance to the individual man. The presence and 
play in equipoise of antagonistic forces within and upon him make 
the perfect man. Dominated by any one of the passions, he fails to 
develop that rounded character which gives to manhood its glory. 
What unfortunate specimens are the result of the undue cultivation 
of even some admitted virtue. Take the avaricious man ; the good 
quality of prudent forethought has been given full sway, the counter 
virtue has been checked, and the equilibrium has been destroyed. 
He dreams of selfish gain. His hand, which should open to feed the 
poor, closes with iron grip. That troublesome and apparently in- 
creasing genus, the crank, is the natural offspring. He sees things 
unduly proportioned. They do not have to him their proper rela- 
tions. He has meditated upon and exclusively cultivated some one 
virtue; has allowed it to become so magnified in his conceptions 
that it is actually transformed into a vice. Even the philosophy 
of the ancients was founded upon the idea of a conflict. With the 
ancient Persian philosophy it became the general formula of the 
universe. Creation contained in its bosom a radical hostility. 
Aristotlean philosophy maintained that the universe resulted from 
two opposite principles (form and privation) combined with a third 
principle (matter) which lies at the ground of the two others. 
Virtue consisted in a medium between opposite passions. 

In these centennial days we have justly sung the praises of those 
sturdy men who so wisely framed and fashioned our ship of state and 
launched it on the unsailed sea of nations ; and it is a remarkable 
and noteworthy fact that one name has almost to the exclusion of 
the others received the meed of praise. Was it that Franklin was 
not wise, that Jefferson was not philosophic, that Adams was not 
sagacious, that Hamilton was not far-sighted, that Lafayette was not 
chivalrous, or that Washington was more than each of these in their 
respective fields ? No ; surely not ! Their fame is imperishable ; 
but he blended in one character in some degree their distinguishing 
traits and exhibited them all in splendid equipoise. It was because 

" His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, this was a man ! " 

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In each life to-day this self-same conflict rages ; none so lowly 
as not to be the arena of the strive ; none so lofty as to escape the 
shock of the mighty contestants : — 

" Our little lives are kept in equipoise 
By opposite attractions and desires ; 
The struggle of the instinct that enjoys, 
And the more noble instinct that aspires." 

The outcome of all this antagonism in the individual is manhood ! 
How is it developed ? 

It is worked out of the raw material, as the sculptor brings out of 
its hiding place the beautiful statue. With chisel, chipping here and 
scaling there, here deep indentation made by heavy blow, there 
slight undulation by gentle stroke, smiting and smoothing, at length 
the work is done ! Or, as the artificer m metal works his work 
upon the anvil, purified and melted by furnace fires, and fashioned 
by the hammer stroke ! Here stands the magnificent organ, and 
the master is seated before it. Pull out this stop and this, you have 
discord ; but pull that and that, and you have the complement, and 
the swelling strains fill the air with blended harmony ! 

The distinguishing feature of modern civilization is the develop- 
ment of this individual. Personal liberty is at once the cause and 
effect of that civilization. 

The Roman world was formed of cities, and to cities it again 
returned. The liberty of the ancient civilization was political 
liberty — the liberty of the citizen. "All roads led to Rome" that 
the mighty cohorts might be swiftly dispatched to succor the im- 
periled capital or the distant city ; but the rude German barbarians 
were imbued with quite another spirit. The idea of personal lib- 
erty was the priceless legacy these iconoclasts bequeathed, and his- 
tory shows it was ultimately the sufficient compensation for the de- 
struction they wrought. Iconoclasts they were; and a mighty and 
marvelous fabric fell beneath their cruel blows. 

Modern civilization allows the development of the individual. 
The atmosphere of this nineteenth century is a resolvent of gyves 
and chains, whether on Russian steppes, African plains, or American 
savannahs. Personal liberty, personal freedom, individuality was 
never so universal as in this day of grace. 

What are the forces to-day operating upon and developing the 
manhood of this individual? To contract the horizon of our 



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vision, what shall we say of American manhood as we enter the 
second century of our constitutional history? Under no form of 
government so much as our own — a government of the people, for 
the people — does the manhood of the individual have a wider or a 
freer field ? 

What, then, is our environment and what the manhood working 
away it ? Like the coral insect which itself supplies the material 
and the workman of the structure which is built. Does the man- 
hood of this nineteenth century fail to reach your ideal ? 

You impeach it as not true ! The world is full of masqueraders 
and charlatans. The counterfeit so often passes for the genuine 
that our view becomes confused. The true and false in appearance 
are so often alike. The highest tribute the false pays to the true is 
its effort to simulate it, whether in the patent medicine advertised 
as "none genuine without our name upon the label" or the hypo- 
crite clad in widest phylactery and seeking the highest seat in the 
synagogue. But the true has the ring in it and responds to the 
crucial test. Unfortunately this is an era of imitations ; the food 
we eat is adulterated ; the clothing we wear is shoddy ; the jewelry 
that decks the bosom of beauty is pinchbeck ; the art which colors 
the canvas is mechanical ; even the antiquities displayed and sold 
are made to order. But the universal protests against these imita- 
tions and the just denunciations of these shams show that the man- 
hood of the day is not with it or of it. 

You impeach it as not honest ! yet the commerce of to-day is 
founded upon it. Communities and continents trade and traffic, 
busy wheels revolve, heavy forges blaze, earth's mines are opened, 
the iron horse traverses the continent on interlacing bands of steel, 
the mighty steamers plow the deep, the harvests of the world are 
transported, and the balance of trade is maintained on a system 
which has for its necessary corner-stone the honesty of this man- 
hood. To-day, more than ever before, men leave their fortunes 
in the keeping of other men because of their confidence in their 
integrity ! 

You impeach it as unjust ! You say the world stands to-day in a 
state of armed neutrality; nations, armed cap-a-pie, watch one 
another, waiting the favorable opportunity to cripple their ad- 
versary and competitor or to make reprisal for lost territory. That 
it is unjust to thus divert from peaceful pursuits the farmer and the 
mechanic, the producer and artificer ; that this should be the day 



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when the wren shall build her nest in the cannon's mouth : yet war 
itself may be a potent instrument of justice. 

You cite the injustice of the money power ! the greed of corpora- 
tions, the combinations of gigantic monetary institutions, the day 
of trusts, capital arrayed against labor ! True, alas ! The undue 
predominance of this power is the main disturbance to the coveted 
equilibrium ; but, on the other hand, the more than princely gifts 
of millions by the fortunate owners of hitherto unparalleled posses- 
sions in this our day have made a Maecenas for almost every hamlet. 
The stately piles for universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, homes, 
and art which generous wealth is everywhere erecting and endowing 
present a spectacle never before witnessed. The fragrant memory of 
the noble charities of a Peabody and a Johns Hopkins and our own 
honored Corcoran would itself almost atone for the alleged injus- 
tice of wealth ! 

But you impeach it as not chivalrous ! With Burke you exclaim 
' ' the day of chivalry is gone ! ' ' but I insist that true chivalry exists 
in this nineteenth century. It may not be that with steel helmet 
and mailed coat the knights ride forth to rescue imperiled maidens 
or to right the wrongs of weaker kinsmen (I have not seen any 
such recently) ; but in our times knightly spirits think knightly 
thoughts and perform knightly deeds as never in those other days 
"when knights of old wore spurs of gold." And the quick re- 
sponse which their heroic deeds evokes from you and me shows that 
in us that spirit is not dead, but sleeping. 

In the alembic of this chivalry, the tears of sympathy for a fire- 
scourged Boston and Chicago, or a fever-smitten Jacksonville, or a 
devestated and deluged Johnstown are transmuted into gold ! 

When a passing merchantman vessel on the trackless sea throws 
overboard her freight and rescues the living cargo of a sinking emi- 
grant ship, two hemispheres tender an ovation to an unknown 
Murrell, and vie with one another in giving him fame and reward ! 

When a Stanley pierces the African continent, if only for politi- 
cal gain, you and I wait on tip-toe of expectancy to learn when and 
where and how he shall emerge from the Cimmerian darkness ! 
When the terrible hurricane resistlessly sweeps the Samoan Bay and 
drives upon the frightful reef the bristling, menacing men-of-war, 
a common ruin restores the strained political relations and brings a 
peaceful solution to portending war ! 

It will not do to say the manhood of to-day is thoroughly selfish 



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and spiritless ; the patriotic spirit but yesterday responded with its 
blood and treasure as freely and as fiercely and as quickly as ever 
before to its country's call in defense of her honor and her life. No ; 
it will not do to say that the manhood of to-day is thoroughly 
selfish and pelf-hunting ! Never was there a time when the unfortu- 
nate, the helpless, and the criminal classes of society were so aided 
and cared for; the humane. societies seeking out and intelligently 
aiding the man overtaken by disaster or crushed and maimed in 
life's struggle j the wonderful educational facilities for the deaf, 
dumb, and blind ; the tender care for the insane ; the ample pro- 
vision for the sick; the reformatory institutions for the vicious ; the 
patrol of the coast with its life-saving devices for the mariner in 
distress— these all are the concreted ideas of the manhood of our 
day embodying its sentiment of charity and self-abnegation ! 

The strongest conserving and regulating force in these days is the 
educational power. The public school, the college, and the uni- 
versity contact more lives and under more favorable circumstances 
than ever before. Their mission is to cultivate the ideal — not merely 
the practical ; to bring the best results of the best thought of the 
best minds of all the past ; and with these as a starting point to 
mould and fashion the manhood of to-morrow. The opportunity of 
the educator lies just here. What may he not accomplish ? What 
power can successfully conflict with this to destroy or nullify its in- 
fluence ? And what shall we say of that great educator — the most 
powerful engine of modern times, the reflex and moulder of public 
sentiment, the detector of crime, the guardian of morals, the mirror 
of progress — the press ! Or what of that advocate of the ideal, the 
true, the good, the just, the right — the pulpit ! 

Let these conspire to enthrone the sentiment of Duty in the man- 
hood of to-day, and to-morrow the glorious dreams of Utopia may 
be materialized ! for, after all else has been said, the chief yet re- 
mains to be said — that the manhood which is actuated by a high 
sense of personal duty creates the ideal environment ! 

President Harrison, in his Centennial address at New York, speak- 
ing of that illustrious American, our first President, said : " He was 
the incarnation of duty, and he teaches us to-day this great lesson, 
that those who would associate their names with events that shall 
outlive a century can only do so by the highest consecration to 
duty." This great truth so well phrased is worthy to be written in 
letters of gold. 



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Noblesse oblige I And let it not be forgotten that he who has en- 
joyed the privileges of the higher education, by that fact and its 
favored possession, is under obligation to advance the manhood of 
his less favored brother. The manly man thus enrolls the patent of 
his nobility ! 

Duty, "stern daughter of the voice of God," is the steadying, 
equalizing force forever demanding justice, fraternity, charity, and 
progress ! Let the educators implant "duty" in the coming man. 
Let her behest be heard and obeyed. Then this presiding genius, 
directing, curbing, and checking the fiery steeds, will conduct the 
chariot of progress to the coveted goal ! 

The philosophy of all these antagonisms is the reign of law. 
Above them all sits enthroned that Providence whose ends are worked 
out by the eternal right ! Ring out the false, ring in the true ! 

" For right is right, as God is God, 
And right the day shall win ; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 
To falter would be sin ! " 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 

PROF. OTIS T. MASON. 



DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 
JUNE IO, 1889. 



My Fellow Alumni: 

My words to you shall be few to-night, because there are other 
matters to bring before you, of a practical nature, to which it is 
meet that you come with fresh and not with jaded minds. 

The seat of learning, in relation to its graduates, has quite hap- 
pily been called alma mater. But the metaphor is incomplete, 
because the perfection of the family idea applied to any human 
institution necessarily involves three persons, the almus pater, the 
alma mater, and the almum genus. 

In what I shall say to you in this connection I beg you to regard 
the adjective ahnus in its original and literal meaning, of food and 
nourishment, rather than in its later and figurative meaning, of gen- 
tleness. 

Applied to the institution of learning the ahnus pater is, without 
doubt, its governing body. And, as there are many kinds of 
fathers, so there is an infinite variety of boards of trustees. 

In my mind's eye I can see an almus pater imitating some of 
those migratory fishes which once a year visit the spawning ground 
in order to fructify the ovules already prepared for them, and then, 
regardless alike of the fate of mater and offspring, lose themselves 
for a twelvemonth in the vast and wandering ocean. 

Another vision then flits across my mind. It is of the human 
almus pater who, day and night, summer and winter, incessantly 
defends and supports the abna mater. In her days of blooming 
cheeks and buoyant carriage he walks with self-conscious pride in 
her company. In her hours of want he labors for her from early 
morn till dewy eve, never so happy as when he lays his offering at 
ner feet. 

In her days of calamity and reproach he is her faithful physician 
and untiring nurse ; he guards her honor as he does his life. With 

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him her wifehood is not an ephemeral episode of romantic love; 
there is no incompatibility of temper here, nor criminal adultery 
nor cruel desertion. 

We have not at this time to inquire to which of these two classes 
the governing body of this institution may belong ; but we have a 
right, which we propose to exert on the proper occasion, to ask the 
question whether our almus pater is living up to those sacred mar- 
riage vows which he voluntarily assumed. We might pursue this 
figure of speech much further on the paternal side, but let us for a 
few moments assume another point of view. 

Alma mater ! That is, indeed, a charming phrase in which they 
speak of the relation sustained by a body of teachers to their pupils. 
You do not suppose for a moment that these enchanting Latin words 
apply to brick or stone, or wood or iron, to bronze or gold, or 
printed books. These are the endearing title of that collected 
learning and tact and friendly solicitude which we are wont to call 
the faculty. Without these a university might be a library, a gallery, 
or a laboratory, but it would have no maternal, seminal, reproduc- 
tive power. 

Now, there are mothers and mothers, and it will do us no harm 
to look at one or two of them with which to compare the alma 
mater. 

All day long, in these hot summer months, the heartless insect 
deposits its eggs, but never once recognizes its offspring. The old 
gad fly and the young gad fly side by side pursue their selfish mission 
without for one moment considering the existence of such a word 
as maternity. And you have seen college faculties as indifferent 
and brutish as this. In them was never felt the ecstacy of concep- 
tion, the anxiety of child-bearing, the tender solicitude of maternity. 
The result was as natural and inevitable as gravity, an alienated 
almus pater and offspring ashamed of their mother. 

But you have also seen institutions of learning that in all respects 
emulate those successful mothers, whose care is never lacking toward 
their children from the natal to the parting moment. Once within 
the vital circulation of that sacred office, a boy's destiny was fore- 
gone. In class, at bed, at board, in his lonely groping after a pro- 
fessional door which he yearns to open into fortune's daylights, 
through the long, long struggle which we sum up in the short, short 
word "life," the alma mater was his dearest friend. And if in this 
modern war for bread and fame and wealth called civilization he 



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scores an honorable record, she builds a mausoleum to his memory, 
where future generations may read his name inscribed in marble of 
immaculate whiteness. To characterize the dynamic of such influ- 
ences, to weigh the advantages which come to young minds whom 
fortune has favored with such opportunities, is far beyond my ability. 
We may in these swiftly passing minutes barely stop to ask to 
which of these classes does our alma mater belong. We have a 
right, as heirs to this inheritance, and we may exert it on the proper 
occasion, to ask her whether she remembers her solemn oath to love,, 
to cherish, and to obey our almus pater, her natural duty to her 
sons and daughters. Oh, mother of our minds ! May it ever be 
our pride to wear our academic honors and to point to thy dwelling 
as the birth-place of our minds. Hold up thy head, oh, gentle one, 
that men may see thy beauty and be won to thee. 

And now I come to you, oh, almum genus of this scholastic mar- 
riage. While you were in your academic swaddling clothes the 
primitive term alitum was a more appropriate name for you, being 
fed by your mother and contributing nothing to her support. But 
now you have become men and women, you have put away the 
childish alitum, and you have adopted as your motto the more noble 
and filial epithet almum. 

As a genus, a class, an association of grown-up offspring, you are 
present to demand the holy privilege of contributing to the well- 
being of your alma mater. Doubtless it has been the unspeakable 
pleasure of some of those who hear me to have your mothers after 
the flesh live to that time of life when the question between you and 
her every day has been : How can I bring some fresh surprise to add 
variety to your happiness and make you glad to live ? Perhaps it 
may have been the unparalleled honor of some who sit before me 
to be the abundant and considerate support of a gentle mother. As 
you two have walked the streets together, the alma mater, the mean- 
ing of the word alma transformed by time from the literal to the 
tropical meaning, from "nourishing" to "gentle," on her furrowed 
brow as well as in the term itself, and the once nourished offspring, 
now become the sustaining child, I declare there has nothing in the 
world so moved the admiration of men. 

On the other hand, picture to yourself the young viviparous snake 
escaped from its mother's ovary, a thankless parricide, from whom 
was never seen one single act or thought of filial gratitude. 



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These are, indeed, the antipodes of what our eyes behold between 
parent and child. It is my earnest desire to see henceforth in each 
alumnus of this institution a dutiful son. We have determined to 
arouse ourselves in behalf of our academic and professional mother 
that she may walk with princes. These three are the holy trinity of 
mutual dependence and love, this father, mother, son in academic 
life. 

It is like the sun shining down upon our earth in threefold ray of 
heat, light, and chemical invigoration, and stimulating the three 
kingdoms of nature, mineral, plant, and animal, into a perpetual flow 
one into another. 

In a perfectly organized and vitalized university the threefold 
divine stimulus of learning, instruction, and research shines down 
on pater, mater, and genus, and sets in motion all those intellectual 
activities that bring them into vital interdependence and organic 
unity. So may it be with Columbian University is my humble 
prayer. 

You will now allow me to drop the metaphor and to close at once 
my address and my happy career as President of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation of the Columbian University with a few plain remarks. 

The year just ending has been the most successful in the history 
of this Association. Something of permanent importance has been 
accomplished. You set yourself the task of endowing the library of 
the University and you have done nobly in this line. 

A reading-room has been established and furnished with an ex- 
cellent series of journals. More ought to be done and more will be 
done in perfecting this scheme by removing it away from the pre- 
carious support of subscription and permanently endowing it. 

We must not rest with the library. I have seen colleges rise and 
decline, but I never saw one in decrepitude whose alumni were alive 
to its wants. I go further : no institution can thrive under our 
present system of education in America whose graduates are not 
brought into living relation with its affairs. I have heard that at 
the next meeting of the corporation this fact will be more fully 
recognized. 

You have all heard that Dr. Welling will make great efforts the 
coming year to increase the endowment of the University. But 
nobody wants to endow that which gives no evidence of vitality. 
Men pile money on money, resources on resources, smiles on smiles, 
labor on labor. Now, it will make all the difference in the world 



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if, when he approaches generous men, he can say the trustees of our 
institution are alive to the occasion, the faculty are more alive, but 
the alumni are most alive of all. 

A generous man has lately given to education $700,000, but he 
has not bestowed one single penny until he has consulted thirty-six 
thoughtful men to know whether the beneficiaries are alive and 
worthy. 

You will now hear from our committees, who will lay before you 
some suggestions for immediate action. The point I would empha- 
size is this, that every man must join himself to one of these sugges- 
tions, and beat the drum, if there is naught else he can do. 

You remember very well that the sudden rise of Princeton, Har- 
vard, and Columbia, in New York, has been caused by the clamor 
of their alumni. Let us imitate their example. 

And now, fellow alumni, in taking leave of this pleasant consul- 
ship I beg leave to thank you for the generosity with which you 
have responded to appeals, the pleasure which you gave to your 
chairman by your hearty good humor at the University dinner, and 
the uniform courtesy which I have received from every one of you. 



MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Columbian University, 

June io, 1889. 

The annual meeting of the Alumni Association was called to 
order at 8.15 p. m. by the President, Prof. Otis T. Mason, forty-five 
members being present. 

The minutes of the annual meeting of June 11, 1888, were read 
and approved. 

The President addressed the Association urging the Alumni to 
renewed efforts for the University. 

The Secretary read a report in reference to the proposed historical 
catalogue, showing what had been done and suggesting plans for 
further work. 

On motion of Mr. E. B. Hay the report was referred to the Ex- 
ecutive Committee. 

The Treasurer read his financial report Cor the past year and also 
a supplementary report in reference to the annual dinner of the 
Association. 

Prof. L. D. Lo.dge, from the Auditing Committee, consisting of 
Mr. A. S. Worthington and himself, read a report endorsing the 
financial report of the Treasurer, and, on motion, it was adopted. 

Professor Gore, from the Library Committee, made a report 
showing that through the efforts of the Alumni a reading-room had 
been established and stocked with forty-three periodicals, and that 
a large number of valuable books had been donated and others 
purchased with money subscribed by the Alumni. 

The report was discussed by Dr. Lee, Mr. Hay, and Professor 
Mason, and, on motion of Mr. Duvall, was referred to the Execu- 
tive Committee. 

The following was offered by Professor Montague : 

In the devotion and in the efforts of earnest alumni lie the glory 
and success of institutions of learning. Knowing that our Uni- 
versity can and does furnish sound and thorough instruction ; know- 

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ing that it needs more students, and believing that an appeal to 
this Association will not be in vain : therefore, be it 

Resolved, That every member of this Alumni Association should 
use his influence to induce at least one student to enter some school 
of the Columbian University next session. 

It was discussed by President Welling, Professor Huntington, 
Professor Fristoe, Mr. H. L. Reynolds, Mr. W. A. De Caindry, 
Rev. A. F. Steele, and Mr. E. B. Hay, and was finally referred to 
the Executive Committee for action. 

The election of officers was then had and resulted as follows, each 
election being unanimous : 

President — Dr. D. W. Prentiss. 

Vice-Presidents — W. A. De Caindry, A. B. Duvall. 

Secretary— Prof. H. L. Hodgkins. 

Treasurer — Prof. A. P. Montague. 

Mr. Chapin Brown moved a vote of thanks to the old board of 
officers for their faithful services during the past year. 

Carried unanimously. 

The Association then, at 10 p. m., adjourned. 

H. L. Hodgkins, 

Secretary. 

June ii, 1889. 
The President, Dr. D. W. Prestiss, to-day appointed the follow- 
ing additional members of the Executive Committee : 
Academic Department — O. T. Mason, Rev. A. F. Steele. 
Medical Department — Dr. Wm. Lee, Dr. C. W. Franzoni. 
Law Department — E. B. Hay, John B. Larner. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



June io, 1889. 

In this report, in reference to the work of preparation of an his- 
torical catalogue of the Alumni of the University, the subject-matter 
naturally divides itself into three parts : First, what has been done 
by others in the past ; second, what I have done ; third, what, in 
my judgment, should be done in the future. And, as a preliminary, 
I have thought it advisable to say a few words in reference to the 
history of the institution. 

About 181 7 Rev. Luther Rice, agent of the Baptist General Con- 
vention of the United States, conceived the idea of founding a 
college in the city of Washington, and through his personal exer- 
tions contributions were obtained, and in 181 9 the land upon 
College Hill, at the head of Fourteenth street, was purchased, and 
shortly afterward the construction of the College building was com- 
menced. 

By an act of Congress approved February 9, 1821, a charter 
was granted to the proposed College. Under this charter the gov- 
ernment of the College was committed to a board of not more than 
thirty-one trustees. To this board, and to the faculty which they 
were authorized to appoint, were given university powers, allowing 
them to establish both academic and professional schools and to 
grant degrees in the liberal arts and sciences. 

Though the College was founded through the exertions of Baptists 
and a majority of its governing board has been of that denomina- 
tion, yet it has never been sectarian. Its officers of instruction and 
its students have been drawn from all denominations. In the 
original charter it was provided "That persons of every religious 
denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees ; nor shall 
any person, either as president, professor, tutor, or pupil, be refused 
admittance into said College or denied any of the privileges, immu- 
nities, or advantages thereof for or on account of his sentiments in 
matters of religion." 

By an act of Congress approved March 3, 1873, tne corporate 
title was changed to that of The Columbian University, and the 

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governing board was made to consist of twenty-one trustees and 
twenty-one overseers. 

The Collegiate Department was opened in January, 1822, with a 
faculty of seven members and an attendance of thirty-nine students. 
Owing to financial difficulties the College exercises were suspended 
in 1827, but were resumed the following year. During the sixty- 
seven years of its existence the College has had six presidents, and 
our present honored President has served since 1871 — a period 
exceeding by several years the time of any of his predecessors. 

The first graduating class — that of 1824 — consisted of three men. 
Up to the present time there have been about 460 graduates, and of 
these the present addresses of 150 are known. 

The Medical Department was opened in 1825, when a very 
valuable lecture was delivered by Dr. Thos. Sewall, in which he 
gave a history of the medical schools in this country, showing that 
the Medical Department of the Columbian College was the seven- 
teenth school established in the United States. In an address at 
the commencement of the Medical School in 1884 Dr. Wm. Lee 
gave a very interesting and suggestive sketch of the history of the 
Medical Department. 

The first graduating class — the class of 1826 — consisted of seven 
men. The total number of graduates is about 580, and of these the 
present addresses of 280 are known. 

The Law School was organized in 1826, with William Cranch and 
William T. Carroll as its first professors. It was discontinued in a 
short time, owing to the financial embarrassments of the College, 
and was not re-established until 1865, since which time it has con- 
tinued to hold its sessions with that success which is a matter of 
knowledge and rejoicing to every alumnus of the University. It 
was the first law school to establish the post-graduate course in prac- 
tice, leading to the degree of master of laws. 

There have been 1,200 graduates of this school, and the addresses 
of 580 are known. 

The Scientific School was established in 1884, and, in grateful 
recollection of the liberal benefactions of the Hon. W. W. Cor- 
coran, it has been called the Corcoran Scientific School. 

Its first class of six members graduated last year. 

The Dental School was established in 1887, and has had seven 
graduates. 



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It will thus be seen that, from the five schools for higher collegiate 
and professional instruction which have been established by this 
University, there have been over 2,500 graduates, and of these the 
present addresses of 1,000 are known to the Secretary, and of these 
1,000 about 200 are living outside the city of Washington. I am 
sure that several hundred additional addresses could be furnished 
me by the Alumni with whom I am in communication, and I ask the 
aid and co-operation of each and all of you. 

A number of historical catalogues have been published, and I shall 
enumerate only those which I have seen ; but it should be under- 
stood that I have made no careful search as yet. In 1839, 1849, 
1857, and 1868 catalogues of the Alumni were published, but only 
the names of the graduates and the degrees conferred by this Uni- 
versity were given. The catalogue for 1868 has a short historical 
sketch of the College. The last historical catalogue was published 
in 1876, and gave more details relating to the graduates of the Col- 
lege, but merely the names of the graduates in law and medicine. 
In 1883 a catalogue of the law graduates was published, giving the 
names only. The medical catalogue for 1886 contained a list of the 
graduates in medicine. 

I have for a number of years hoped to find the time to enter 
vigorously upon the work of preparation of a new and more ex- 
tensive catalogue of the graduates ; and shortly after my election as 
Secretary of the Alumni, two years ago, in furtherance of the work 
I prepared at my own expense a card catalogue of the graduates, 
and I have placed upon these cards such information as has come to 
me. I have as yet made no systematic efforts in the carrying out of 
the planned work, but a beginning has been made. 

On September 28, 1888, the Executive Committee of the Alumni 
adopted the following resolution, proposed by Dr. Lee : 

Resolved, That the Alumni recommend to the proper officers of 
the University that there be published an historical sketch of the 
University, its various departments, and its officers, with full class 
lists of the Alumni and the honors attained by them in public or 
private life, their dates of death or present addresses, suitably illus- 
trated, and provided with a copious and comprehensive index. 

This resolution expresses very definitely what is desired. No 
complete history of the University has ever been written or pub- 
lished, so far as my knowledge goes. Several sketches have been 
printed, but none are satisfactory. 



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The work of preparing this history should be intrusted to some 
person who can obtain access to the records and files of the Uni- 
versity, and the more thorough and intimate his knowledge of the 
reasons for the facts of record, the more valuable would be his work. 
Our President, Dr. Welling, has wished to write such a history, I 
know, and only lack of time has prevented him. If he could be 
prevailed upon to do it his work would be invaluable. 

The obtaining and compiling of the statistics relating to the grad- 
uates is a work of considerable magnitude, and cannot be accom- 
plished in a day or a year. It will involve an extensive corre- 
spondence, and provision must be made for the expenses of printing 
and postage. 

The general direction of the whole work should be intrusted to a 
small committee, or even to a single person, though much aid could 
be obtained from members of the Faculty and interested graduates 
in each department. In fact it might be well to intrust the work 
for each department to a subcommittee of one, carefully selected. 
Respectfully submitted, 

H. L. Hodgkins, 

Secretary. 



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SUMMARY OF TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Receipts : 
June 16, 1888. Received from Prof. O. T. Mason, retiring 

Treasurer $8 36 

Received from Alumni, annual dues and 

for dinner tickets 376 00 

#384 36 

Disbursements : 

Printing and postage, Secretary and Treasurer $87 36 

Annual dinner 286 00 

373 36 

June 10, 1889. Cash on hand $11 00 



REPORT OF LIBRARY FUND. 

Receipts : 

From Prof. Asaph Hall $10 00 

" Mr. John B. Larner (bond) 250 00 

" Mr. H. L. Reynolds IO 00 

'< Dr. B. C. Cook 1 00 

" Mr. R. H. T. Leipold 4 00 

" Prof. Fabian Franklin 4 00 

#279 00 

Disbursements : 

To Professor Gore, of Purchasing Committee $24 50 

To subscriptions to newspapers 4 50 

$29 00 



REPORT OF MAGAZINE FUND. 

Received from thirteen alumni, one law professor, and one trustee $73 50 

Expended in subscriptions to magazines and newspapers 73 50 

A. P. Montague, 

Treasurer. 



ABSTRACT OF REPORT OF LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



June io, 1889. 

Since October 1, 1888, 209 volumes have been added to the 
library by purchase. Of these, four lexicons were purchased with 
money contributed by Alumni ; the others were purchased with 
University funds. Seventy-nine volumes were presented by Alumni 
or at their suggestion. The principal contributions have been the 
following : 

W. H. Babcock, three volumes of his own writings. 

Prof. O. T. Mason, a bound series of papers on Anthropology, 
written by himself, and a number of miscellaneous pamphlets. 

Rev. S. R. White, Gill's Commentaries, 9 volumes. 

Dr. J. Curtiss Smithe, The Adventures of Telemachus, 1768. 

Dr. Harvey Lindsley, 34 volumes. 

W. A. De Caindry, Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of 
the United States, 7 volumes. 

Win, Tayloe Snyder, Black's Atlas of the World ; Lippincott's 
Biographical Dictionary; Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World. 

I. B. Linton, Walker's American Law. 

Mrs. Perry, Sketches by Gov. Perry. 

O. L. Fassig, Bibliography of Meteorology. 

F. H. Kerfoot, D. D., one volume. 

Prof. J. H. Gore, two volumes. 

President Welling, one volume. 

Special efforts have been made to secure all Government publica- 
tions as they appear. 

The library is also indebted to Professor Fristoe for the loan 
of a complete set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, last edition. 

It would be difficult to overestimate the good effects of the read- 
ing-room feature of our library, started and so far sustained by the 
Alumni. Forty-three periodicals have been subscribed for or 
received in response to request for a free copy. No portion of the 
library is so much used or so thoroughly enjoyed as the files of 
periodicals, and every contribution to this fund adds valuable in- 
formation of the most recent type to our stock, and aids in reducing 
the work of discipline to a minimum. 

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During the past eight months 796 individual volumes or papers 
have found a place within our library. If this rate of increase be 
kept up for five years our library will be nearly doubled in size and 
guadrupled in usefulness. Such a growing collection of useful 
books — accessible to Alumni during eight hours each day — will 
surely commend itself as worthy of being enlarged by our gifts or 
our loans. 

J. H. Gore, 
For Library Committee. 



THE ANNUAL DINNER. 



[From the Washington " Star" of April II, 1889.] 

A table extending the whole length of the long banquet-room at 
Wormley's Hotel last night glittered with silver and glass and was 
adorned with masses of flowers and fruit. In the array of ban- 
quetters who gathered about the festal board were leaders in scien- 
tific work, men famed as instructors, lawyers and doctors holding 
honored places in their professions, journalists and business men of 
the city, all of whom owe allegiance to the Columbian University 
as their ahna mater. They represented the flower and fruit of the 
University, and they assemble once a year to hold a feast in honor 
of the well-loved institution. There were nearly a hundred present 
last evening. They enjoyed a fine dinner and listened to a number 
of good after-dinner speeches, each department of the University 
having its champion, and managing to have its claims to considera- 
tion fully exploited. Among the special guests of the evening were 
Major J. W. Powell, director of the Geological Survey, and Dr. 
John S. Billings, of the Army Medical Museum. Prof. Otis T. 
Mason, whose name has been identified with the University for so 
many years that one can scarcely credit his youthful appearance, 
presided as toast-master, and his bright way of stating the toasts and 
his somewhat unique rendering of the Latin sentiments helped to 
give a rare and racy flavor to the feast of wit that followed the ter- 
rapin and jacksnipe. It transpired early that the day was Professor 
Mason's fifty-first birthday, and that the committee in charge had 
conspired to fix the banquet on that date, so as to honor Professor 
Mason at the same time that they honored the University. Near 
Professor Mason sat President Welling and a group of professors 
and distinguished men who have aided the University as trustees or 
as patrons. 

Professor Mason in introducing the toasts made the gratifying 
announcement that the Columbian University was never in a more 
prosperous condition than it is to-day. He spoke of the fact that 
in the board of trustees there was but one graduate of the Uni- 
versity, while the board of overseers includes six and the faculty 

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nineteen graduates. He thought the Alumni should see to it that 
on the board of trustees there should be a larger representation of 
the graduates. Among the announcements he made concerning 
Alumni were those of the appointments of W. F. Mattingly and 
Henry E. Davis to professorships in the Law School, and of Dr. D. K. 
Shute to a professorship in the Medical School ; of the elevation of 
Professors Montague and Gore to the dignity of the degree of 
Ph. D., and the appointment of Mr. B. G. Lovejoy to codify the 
District laws. He noted also the appointment of Dr. J. Howard 
Kerfoot, an alumnus, to be the acting head of the Southern Bap- 
tist College of Kentucky, and spoke of honors won by others of 
the Alumni since the last annual gathering. He urged, too, that 
members of the Association should do what they could to promote 
the interests of the library of the University, for which Mr. John 
B. Larner and others have made generous contributions during the 
year. 

A characteristic of the speeches made in response to the regular 
toasts was the hopeful prospect that each speaker saw before the 
department of the University for which he spoke. Dr. Welling, 
who was first called upon to respond to " The Corporation of the 
University," spoke of the great advantages of Washington as an 
educational center. What Athens was to Greece, Washington, he 
said, is to America. The city of Washington is in itself a great 
university. He believed he saw a brighter day for Columbian Uni- 
versity in the near future. 

Mr. Theodore W. Noyes, of the class of '77, responded to "The 
Academic Department." Mr. Noyes spoke of the old College and 
" Prep." on the hill. He recalled many of the old familiar scenes. 
He referred to the wonderful expansion of Washington and the ex- 
isting conditions which fitted it to become the educational center 
of the Republic. Referring to Andrew D. White's article on the 
subject of a National University here, Mr. Noyes said that if an 
endowment representing only a half of the $6,000,000 which Mr. 
White deemed necessary for his design could be secured upon the 
firm foundation laid by the Columbian University he thought a 
great National University could be erected. 

Dr. D. K. Shute, responding for the Medical Department, spoke 
with pride of the successes achieved by that department and with 
hope for its future. He gave an outline of its needs. 

Mr. B. G. Lovejoy made a witty speech in response to "The Law 



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Department," not forgetting to exploit the deeds of that depart- 
ment. 

Prof. F. W. Clarke spoke for the Scientific Department. He re- 
ferred, as others had done, to the peculiar educational advantages 
of Washington, and remarked that there were about 400 men of 
science here engaged constantly in original investigation. 

Dr. R. B. Donaldson was called upon to speak for the youngest 
department — the Dental Department — and gave a gratifying state- 
ment of its condition and expectations. 

Dr. Billings made an interesting speech in reference to a toast to 
"The Medical Museum," sketching some of the features of that 
institution in its relations to education. 

When the regular toasts were ended Major Powell, Mr. E. B. Hay, 
and Prof. Henry E. Davis were called upon and spoke with elo- 
quence and enthusiasm. 

Among those present were E. B. Jackson, G. L. Wilkinson, F. H. 
Seely, N. L. Burchell, H. L. Hodgkins, C. H. Gardner, Dr. J. W. 
Chappell, Dr. W. E. Handy, Dr. J. W. Dunn, Dr. D. K. Shute, 
Dr. C. W. Richardson, Dr. W. H. Fox, Dr. L. L. Friedrich, Dr. 
C. T. Caldwell, Dr. B. G. Pool, Dr. G. A. Acker, Dr. J. C. Mc- 
Guire, Dr. Wm. Lee, Dr. H. C. Thompson, Dr. W. H. Seaman, J. 
P. Klingle, J. O. Wilson, F. W. Clarke, Professor Mason, Dr. J. S. 
Billings, Professor Abbe, Theo. W. Noyes, T. A. Lambert, A. S. 
Worthington, W. A. De Caindry, W. H. Doolittle, E. R. Tyler, H. 
E. Davis, J. W. Cooksey, Geo. W. Kern, Richard E. Pairo, Geo. 
E. Corson, Harry King, W. Riley Deeble, Jesse H. Wilson, R. W. 
Woodward, Dr. C. E. Postley, W. B. Robison, J. H. Spalding, 
S. R. Church, W. A. Hedrick, Dr. A. J. Hall, Dr. J. R. Walton, 
Dr. M. F. Thompson, Dr. L. C. F. Hugo, Dr. Walter Harban, Dr. J. 
Hall Lewis, Dr. J. Curtiss Smithe, Dr. R. B. Donaldson, Dr. A. F. 
A. King, Dr. D. W. Prentiss, Duncan Thompson, Dr. J. S. Conrad, 
Prof. J. H. Gore, Prof. A. P. Montague, Prof. E. T. Fristoe, Prof. 
L. D. Lodge, Rev. S. R. White, Prof. S. M. Shute, Rev. A. J. Hunt- 
ington, John T. Given, Judge W. A. Richardson, President Well- 
ing, Major Powell, R. C. Fox, W. F. Holtzman, B. G. Lovejoy, 
A. B. Duvall, Charles H. Cragin, E. B. Hay, M. M. Parker, P. F. 
Larner, John R. Collette, J. Weed Corey, J. D. Terrill, Fillmore 
Beall, Chapin Brown, A. T. Britton, A. B. Browne, H. L. Rey- 
nolds, Robert E. Morris, T. L. Jeffords, Charles Newell, and C. L. 
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